In the current season, the prices for rye in Ukraine are comparable to the prices for feed wheat, which will possibly lead to increasing the planted areas of rye, the Commercial Director of Rivne-Boroshno PJSC Roman Tsaruk declared. According to Tsaruk, the composition of Ukrainian soils will contribute to increasing of rye planted areas, because…
In 2015/2016 MY, Ukraine increased the export shipment of vegetable oils by containers, the Associated Partner at Global Ocean Link Pavel Mirzak declared. In particular, container shipping of sunflower oil increased by 24% YoY, soybean oil – 4.8 times. In January-August the port of Odessa covered more than half of the container shipment of the…
Ukraine has enough energy at the beginning of winter, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said. “One of the achievements we showed in the past two years is that today the share of gas-consuming energy in the balance of energy consumption is around 60%. At present we have enough coal stocks and enough gas in storage…
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih has paid over 72 million UAH of losses caused to the state in violation of environment protection legislation as it has been prescribed by court. The company executed the ruling of Dniepropetrovsk commercial court of appeals ordering to pay 72.699 million UAH as a collection of damage caused to the state in…
In January-October seaports of Ukraine handled 108,891,000 tons of cargo (down by 8.9% YoY), press center of Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority reported. Transshipment of export cargo totaled 81.82 million tons (-2.8%), imports – 13.418 million tons (-9.8%), transit – 9.025 million tons (-34.9%), inland traffic – 4.627. Container throughput in seaports totaled 498,080 TEUs (up…
The law extending a moratorium to sell farmland until 2018 passed by Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada on October 6, was officially published in Holos Ukrainy parliament’s newspaper on November 1. The law amending Section X of the transition clauses of the Land Code of Ukraine regarding a ban to sell farmland extends the moratorium to sell…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised upwards expectations regarding the ratio between Ukraine’s gross foreign debt and GDP in 2016-2017. According to the IMF, the indicator will grow to 141.3% of GDP from 136.4% of GDP (earlier it was excepted to be 152.3% of GDP) and in 2017 it will fall to 136.3% of…